I just saw the show last night and I was thinking the same thing. Dude's answer to "why are you rushing?" at the Omega Chi house was too generic for me. Why did everyone look around like whoa? LOL!

I caught 5 minutes of this show and quickly turned it off. It's one of the worst shows I've ever seen.

The writing is awful. There is no originality. The writers used every cliche and stereotype within the first 5 minutes. What were they going to do for the rest of the show? Plus the acting was terrible.

I don't think this show is going to last. It's not a train wrck. It's just bad TV.

The greek references and the absurdity of what they had greeks doing pissed me off.
The storyline between the brother and sister I thought was kind of interesting, I just didn't expect it to be resolved, semi-resolved by the end of the episode. She was a typical older sister, not wanting your brother around. I felt that exact same way, albeit, in high school. I totally understand the annoyance of having your little brother come around and invade in your "turf".
I found some of the storylines interesting, hated the greek references, but my roommate was like 'take it with a grain of salt'. Because let's face it, NO ONE wants to do a show on the reality of greek life. Yes, there would be some drama, but the reality is I think people would say "god their boring" and that doesn't make good television.

The ABC airing was heavily edited! I enjoyed the cable version better.

I just noticed three scenes deleted (and they were also deleted on the rerun on ABC Family last night):
1. Rusty entering the sorority house
2. The Kappas deciding to give Rusty a bid
3. Casey and Evan having dinner together

I'm assuming the cuts were made for additional commercial time. I imagine ABC was able to sell more ads for the show between Monday night and Friday night.

I think one of my favorite parts was the Kappa bid written on a post-it!

They also cut the beginning scene at the ZBZ house where you assume rush has started--where a PNM and a active start fighting---but then you find out that they are both actives and they were just doing a rush skit. I was kinda sad they left that part out.

Ok, so the acting is bad, but I kinda like the show. Yes it does play into stereotypes, but we also have to remember there are chapters of sororities who live up to the stereotypes, so its not 100% inaccurate.

They also cut the part in the bathroom where the Senator's daughter says she's looking for her rape whistle. I'm sure a lot was edited for content and some for time but I don't think they edited it well. The scene where Casey and Evan have dinner is pretty important.

I joined that virtualrush.com site to see what the fuss was about. My screenname is "aridiculousshow" so uh why all these lil kids "digging me" and asking me to vote for them? Is it not apparent that I believe it is A RIDICULOUS SHOW?? Hmmm... :p I love kids!

Just like real life.

I actually enjoyed it. And if anyone is stupid enough to believe that's what Greek Life is really like, well, they'll probably be eaten alive in the rush process. Their fault.

Greek on iTunes
 

This thread is getting really long and have only been skimming parts of it so I'm sorry if this has already been said, but I just wanted to let everyone know that if you didn't watch the 1st episode and want to know what the hype is all about, the pilot episode is available for FREE on iTunes.

ROFL if you think a show is not going to last because of these things you must have been living under a rock for the past 5 years. Look at 99% of other shows on every channel...

Well I apologize for having an opinion. I didn't realize that I needed your permission to have one.

There are a lot of shows that are really good but only last one season. There are a lot of crappy shows that stay on the air forever. I just happen to think this one won't last.

But perhaps I'll just go and hid out under my rug until you tell me it's safe to come out.

This might be a stupid question...but what channel is the cable version on? Are you talking about ABC v. ABC Family? Or ABC Family v. another channel? :confused: I watched it on ABC Family and so I'm guessing that was the one that was heavily edited because I don't remember any of the scenes you're talking about and I want to see them!

She's talking about ABC vs ABC Family. The version that was heavily edited was the ABC version.